Jed118 wrote on 2021-01-18, 18:59:

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2021-01-18, 16:25:

Jed118 wrote on 2021-01-18, 16:01:

I remember those being hit-or-miss. What's the dot pitch on that one?

Looking at the box it shows .20mm horizontal and .25mm diagonal dot pitch

AH yes, the good old clicking and zooming.

I had a 17 inch back in the day, there must have been something wrong with it because I don't recall it being very good, at least compared to my 21" DiamondScan and a 20" Samsung (I forget the model, this was 20 years ago) monitors from around the same time. A friend had a 15 inch Viewsonic and it also wasn't too impressive. The ones at the computer store I worked at were pretty crisp though. Weird.

I was the only one I knew with one to see in person, so granted there may have been quality issues, and certainly the non-flat versions didn't seem as good. When I got it, it was actually the cheaper of the 17" options in the shop I was at, and thought at first it was another example of me having to settle for second best unlike my mates and their trinitons. Moment I turned it on though, everybody in my circle of nerdy friends were jelious. I'm not sure if they made larger ones. Also 17" at that time felt quite sizeable in a world of 14/15 inch screens which seemed to be the standard at the home. Nice refresh rate at the largest resolution it could handle. 75Hz at 1280 x 1024 iirc?

I certainly rate the diamondscans too, better than trinitons imo. For 17", both were trumped by that Viewsonic though. I don't think the Viewsoninc was OEM either, certainly never came across that screen branded by anyone else. The specs are qute unique to it.... daum, I want one again now... no space 🙁.

This card. Crappy seller's pic is crappy, but this should be the MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4600. It was advertised as "Old Nvidia graphics card" for local pickup only, but I offered a few Euros more and the seller agreed to ship it. Let's hope it still works...

Found this clever thing hiding in a pile of "misc old computerparts".

Had to buy the whole 5kg lot of old stinking (literally) ATX PSU's, Pentium 4 era OEM motherboards and the usual FX5200's plus random useless cables.

The card itself had probably lived inside some smokers lungs for a decade or so.
The smell was so bad it made my eyes tear when I opened the package.
Well nothing a few hours soaking in soapy water won't fix.
Now proving its worth in my trusty old P3B-F for a while.

Is the "T" for Tualatin? Very nice find if it is

debs3759 wrote on 2021-01-18, 21:36:

Is the "T" for Tualatin? Very nice find if it is

Yep, sure is!

New laser with complete drive assembly, for my Playstation2-Slim.

spiroyster wrote on 2021-01-18, 19:18:

I was the only one I knew with one to see in person, so granted there may have been quality issues, and certainly the non-flat versions didn't seem as good. When I got it, it was actually the cheaper of the 17" options in the shop I was at, and thought at first it was another example of me having to settle for second best unlike my mates and their trinitons. Moment I turned it on though, everybody in my circle of nerdy friends were jelious. I'm not sure if they made larger ones. Also 17" at that time felt quite sizeable in a world of 14/15 inch screens which seemed to be the standard at the home. Nice refresh rate at the largest resolution it could handle. 75Hz at 1280 x 1024 iirc?

I certainly rate the diamondscans too, better than trinitons imo. For 17", both were trumped by that Viewsonic though. I don't think the Viewsoninc was OEM either, certainly never came across that screen branded by anyone else. The specs are qute unique to it.... daum, I want one again now... no space 🙁.

Between the Mitsubishi (BNC too!) and the Samsung, my desk was bowing in the middle from the weight. IIRC I sold the Mitsu to a friend for $50 - it had significant bezel damage, but we used tape, epoxy, and paint to fix it - it looked good 5 ft away, which was perfect as my friend was using it as a movie display in his room - like a netflix and chill but with torrents and.... well, the other thing you'd do in your early 20s. I kept the Samsung for a while before I got the then new 16:9 standard in an LCD. I kinda miss that thing, it was pretty cutting edge when I got it in 2001 or so.

Now I have a SUN 19 inch 😁

gex85 wrote on 2021-01-18, 19:44:

This card. Crappy seller's pic is crappy, but this should be the MSI GeForce 4 Ti 4600. It was advertised as "Old Nvidia graphics card" for local pickup only, but I offered a few Euros more and the seller agreed to ship it. Let's hope it still works...
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I love these sellers. That's how I got my Radeon DDR for well below its value listed as "ATI Rage Theater".

Parts for the iMac G3 Bondi.

* PRAM battery: check
* Optical drive with correct faceplate: Check
* 3D Printed IR Shield Cover (Non-functional): Check
* Replacement Smart Checked IDE Hard Drive: Check

Still missing:

Covers for IO ports
Original Media Discs
Correct KBM Combo.

I've got enough to get it suitable for use at least. I also sourced a button bar cover for my 2nd M1710, so both M1710s are more or less mint now.

Unsurpringsly I've also completely lost accountability on my parts spreadsheet. The collection multiplied quicker than my ability to test and catalog. Again. FML. I don't even know half of what I have anymore, I've literally had "Since when do I own THAT" moments, much less do I remember the last time half this crap was in a machine. Currently going through testing all my laptops to try and figure out the source of the damage to the Toshiba P3 GF2 go laptop. So far no more screen damage, so that's good. I'm thinking a chemical was spilled on it without my noticing, or its something age related that just finally gave.

I'm also begining to worry about my hardware outside in a detached garage with a door that opens 2-3x a day. I'm worried moisture from condensation from temperature changes will eventually damage stuff, all my nice GPUs are probably getting pulled soon and put into indoor storage accordingly. I need to go out and catalog what already has rust damage (something had minor corrosions when I got them or when I moved) so I can track if this is an escalating problem. I have a couple of parts that are already dead or have issues or are plain worthless in spots that should in theory be the worst of the worst to see what the effects are.

bofh.fromhell wrote on 2021-01-18, 21:15:

Now proving its worth in my trusty old P3B-F for a while.

i've never seen a slocket adapter that actually looks like a pentium cartridge. that is super cool. hope it works well!

I bought an AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ That would be nothing special for AM2 socket, but this is actually Socket 939 processor and it is rather expensive. I paid $7.5.
My plan is to put it into my Windows 2000 overkill machine which already has Athlon64 3200+ and 3700+ is also on the way. I'll decide which one is faster for the job.

bofh.fromhell wrote on 2021-01-18, 21:15:

Found this clever thing hiding in a pile of "misc old computerparts". […]
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Found this clever thing hiding in a pile of "misc old computerparts".

Had to buy the whole 5kg lot of old stinking (literally) ATX PSU's, Pentium 4 era OEM motherboards and the usual FX5200's plus random useless cables.

The card itself had probably lived inside some smokers lungs for a decade or so.
The smell was so bad it made my eyes tear when I opened the package.
Well nothing a few hours soaking in soapy water won't fix.
Now proving its worth in my trusty old P3B-F for a while.

I have a very similar Slocket on my P2B-F running a Celeron 533 (It's a DOS/Win2K build that doesn't require any faster CPUs.. This one can be slowed down perfectly to a 386SX actually)

Strange PCI video....

Got some more stuff from the same recycler for a very sweet deal!

awe64 gold unfortunately looks like it was exposed to the elements but for $5 I figured no big loss if it wound up not working.

A4000 unfortunately is really beat up case-wise from poor handling at the recycler, but the battery (clipped off already) actually has very minimal leakage! Unfortunately someone broke some of the ram socket clips but I'll try a repair soon. The VT card kind of took a beating sadly.
Also found the Model M that went with the XT system that I picked up a few weeks ago, as well as a white box with a ASUS CUSL-C board.

Got a few older LCDTVs with input connections for Africa. Great for testing old/ancient systems and consoles.. $nz30 all up. Much lighter than crts and for that price I don't feel guilty throwing them out if they go unserviceable. But i'd pull out the lcd panels if I know they are good and anything else I think will be useful.

Tronix wrote on 2021-01-20, 09:12:

Strange PCI video....

I have a cyberpro card around here somewhere. Can't remember if I ever got around to posting my findings about it. Mine has a jack for 3d glasses on it. Very uncommon chip, for sure.

Got this white elephant:

Paid more then i wanted.
But still something like 1/4 of ebay prices, if you can find a boxed one.
Thankfully I have non boxed ones so I can keep this one in the plastic.

Bought another GUS clone: a Reveal SC800/WAVExtreme 32

Going to work on the STB version this Saturday as well (not giving up on this card).

Wow, that is some real expensive hardware you just bought 😀

Well, $75 is better than $300.